Lodging Daily News

NEWTON, Massachusetts—Sonesta International Hotels Corporation announced the grand opening of a Signature Inn San Francisco Marina, a 32-room, upper-economy property located in San Francisco, California. “Sonesta’s conversion of Signature Inn San Francisco Marina, with its iconic address on Lombard Street, demonstrates our continued expansion in the upper economy segment across the United States,” said Keith Pierce, Sonesta’s executive vice president and president franchise and development. “With a fast, friendly, and flexible franchising promise, Sonesta is

ATLANTA, Georgia—MDO has grown its back-office automation and business intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of HelloGM. HelloGM enables hotel operators to understand property-level operating performance and automate previously manual reconciliation tasks. MDO customers will now be able to use a broader set of back-office capabilities, while HelloGM customers will benefit from MDO’s paperless night audit solution and budgeting, forecasting, and business intelligence solutions. “We are thrilled to welcome the HelloGM team and customers to MDO,”

Entegra, a Sodexo company, joined five global hotel companies—Accor, Hilton, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, and Radisson Hotel Group—and Avendra to launch the Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement (HARP) to accelerate positive impact across the hospitality industry and to support to clients on key sustainability goals. The HARP members can enroll their suppliers in a sustainability assessment via the EcoVadis platform, which scores suppliers based on a range of sustainability metrics. The resulting sustainability

WASHINGTON—As expected, U.S. hotel performance was lower than the previous week, but year-over-year comparisons were improved, according to CoStar’s latest data through Sept. 30, 2023. U.S. Hotel Performance September 24-30, 2023 Percentage change from comparable week in 2022:Occupancy: 66.7 percent (up 0.8 percent)ADR: $157.89 (up 4.6 percent)RevPAR: $105.31 (up 5.4 percent) Occupancy was up year over year on the positive side of the Rosh Hashanah calendar shift. At the same time, the Yom Kippur observance

NEW YORK—SevenRooms announced the launch of a new solution for restaurants: Revenue Management. The product serves as an engine for operators to generate sales and profitability from the same seats, using data science to recommend how to optimize availability and increase table usage. Inspired by effective revenue management strategies long-used by the travel industry, Revenue Management extends this practice to the restaurant industry. The product automates these processes without the need for analysts, additional staff,